Bringing Tony Home

Written by Tissa Abeysekara
Price: $14.95
North Atlantic Books

Set in the 1940s and 1960s, Bringing Tony Home is a masterful modern example of a timeless genre, the bildungsroman. In the title novella, a boy returns to his old home to find Tony, his beloved dog who was abandoned when economic circumstances forced the family to leave. “Bringing Tony Home”...

Available November 25, 2008

The Hierophant of 100th Street

Written by Cullen Dorn
Price: $16.95
Frog Books

The Hierophant of 100th Street is a rarity: a metaphysical novel set in a violent world of gangs, prisons, and the army. Drawing on the author’s experience of growing up in East Harlem in the 1960s, the story follows 17-year-old Adam Kadman and his 9-year-old brother John through their respective initiations...

Available October 7, 2008

The Book from the Sky

Written by Robert Kelly
Price: $15.95
North Atlantic Books

“I’m on my way back. I was one of the first they took away.” So begins Robert Kelly’s remarkable science fiction novel about a literally divided self. “I” is Billy, the book’s protagonist, a boy who is captured by a group of aliens who take him to a cave and meticulously...

Available September 30, 2008

The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger

Written by Cecil Brown, Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Price: $15.95
Frog Books

“If you're black you don't need to get at anything. You're already there. You can live right out of your insides.” So says the antihero of this legendary novel that reimagines the Bible’s prodigal son as a young black man in post-Civil Rights-era America. George Washington—one of his many aliases—is a...

Available July 29, 2008

Sweetpea's Secret

Written by Renay Jackson
Price: $14.95
Frog Books

Renay Jackson’s previous books in this series introduced the curious character of Sweetpea, who’s not exactly what he seems. By day he’s Horace Boudreaux, mortgage broker and sometime playboy who likes nothing better than getting down with his girlfriend Harriette. Other times, he’s one of Oaktown’s more successful hitmen. He doesn’t...

Available July 15, 2008

Guarding Hanna

Written by Miha Mazzini
Price: $15.95
North Atlantic Books

Abandoned at birth because he has the face of a “prize boar,” the unnamed narrator of Guarding Hanna knows only a local Berlin gang as family. Patriarch Maestro acts as surrogate father, employing him to collect debts and perform thuggish tasks. Except for brief moments interacting with the gang, “the beast”...

Available June 17, 2008

Alamut

Written by Vladimir Bartol
Price: $16.95
North Atlantic Books

Alamut takes place in 11th Century Persia, in the fortress of Alamut, where self-proclaimed prophet Hasan ibn Sabbah is setting up his mad but brilliant plan to rule the region with a handful elite fighters who are to become his "living daggers." By creating a virtual paradise at Alamut, filled with...

If I Never Get Back

A Novel

Written by Darryl Brock
Price: $15.95
Frog Books

Contemporary reporter Sam Fowler, stuck in a dull job and a failing marriage, abruptly finds himself transported back to the summer of 1869. After a wrenching period of adjustment, he comes to feel rejuvenated by his involvement with the nation's first pro baseball players. He also finds his senses quickening and...

Two in the Field

A Novel

Written by Darryl Brock
Price: $15.95
Frog Books

In this sequel to the best-selling If I Never Get Back, Sam Fowler manages to break into the past once again—but this time it’s 1875. Gripped by an economic depression, America is a darker place. Again Sam falls in with ballplayers, but spins off on his own seeking the whereabouts of...

I, Stagolee

A Novel

Written by Cecil Brown
Price: $15.95
North Atlantic Books

It's the birth year of Ragtime music, 1895, and Lee "Stagolee" Shelton, a St. Louis pimp, murders Billy Lyons, a political gang member. Afterwards, Stagolee makes a deal with Judge Murphy to bring order to the underworld. As a member of a group of pimps called the "Stags," Stagolee makes alliances...

Primal Tears

Written by Kelpie Wilson
Price: $13.95
Frog Books

A cross between a human and a bonobo? Carl Sagan and others have speculated: Is it possible? What kind of creature would it be? And how might this affect our world? Kelpie Wilson takes the premise and runs with it in this engaging novel. Primal Tears is the story of Sage...

Al-Naqba (The Catastrophe)

A Novel About the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

Written by Barbara Goldscheider
Price: $14.95
Frog Books

Based on events, organizations, and locations that Barbara Goldscheider experienced while working on army bases throughout Israel, Al-Naqba, The Catastrophe follows the parallel stories of an elite Palestinian Arab and an officer of the Israeli Defense Forces. Asa Ibrahimi’s infatuation with the daughter of a desert sheikh is brutally ended when...

Imaginings: An Anthology of Visionary Literature, Volume 1

After the Myths Went Home

Preface by Harlan Ellison, Edited by Stefan Rudnicki
Price: $14.95
Frog Books

Imaginings inaugurates an ambitious three-book series featuring the best stories that explore key imaginative concepts in the genre and their later literary permutations. The theme in this initial entry is the power of mythology in human life through the centuries. Authors include Robert Silverberg, whose "After the Myths Went Home" shows...

The Televisionary Oracle

Written by Rob Brezsny
Price: $16.95
Frog Books

Millions of people already live their lives in accordance with Rob Brezsny's "Real Astrology" prophecies. But the time has come for a deeper dose of Brezsny's brain-The Televisionary Oracle is an archetypal roller-coaster that would make Rumi dizzy and leave Carl Jung gasping for breath.

Tesla

The Modern Sorcerer

Written by Daniel Stewart
Price: $19.95
Frog Books

Toward the end of the nineteenth century dawned an age, all but forgotten. It was an era of immense flying machines, tall buildings, electric wires and telegraph cables. Miracles of science astonished the masses of Europe and the United States daily. Thomas Edison arose to prominence on an empire of stolen...

Appaloosa Rising

New Illustrated Edition

Written by Gino Sky
Price: $12.95
North Atlantic Books

In Gino Sky's Appaloosa Rising, you will witness an authentic Western writer creating a series of erotic and improbable tall tales that read like Idaho saloon talk. If you want to absorb a vision of the west that satisfies your deepest fantasies, but doesn't offend your modern sensibilities, visit the gang...

Coyote Silk

The Legend of the Cowboy Buddha Continues

Written by Gino Sky
Price: $9.95
North Atlantic Books

From the author of Appaloosa Rising: The Legend of the Cowboy Buddha, Coyote Silk portrays the whimsical winning of the West, in wry and righteous language from the much-loved author, Gino Sky. This book is a continuation of the legend of the Cowboy Buddha.